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John Lantos
Aug 12, 20223 min read
Money, miracles, and mortality in SMA
The child in the picture has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). She made the news in Mumbai when her parents tried to one of the new and...
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John Lantos
Aug 11, 20222 min read
Can race-based rationing be fair?
COVID-19 has been a good testing ground for theories about the fair allocation of scarce resources. Everybody agrees on the basic idea...
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John Lantos
Aug 4, 20222 min read
What matters with Kansas
Sedgewick County, home of Wichita, voted 58-42 to preserve abortion rights. That says it all. The organized anti-abortion movement...
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John Lantos
Jul 31, 20223 min read
Three really good bioethics books
While giving birth to her second child, Josephine, Dr. Jane Lee has a uterine rupture. It was misdiagnosed. Her baby went without oxygen...
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John Lantos
Jul 28, 20223 min read
So? Gonna immunize your kids?
Parents in the US make up their own minds about immunizations. Almost all consent to some vaccines for their kids. Over 99% of US...
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John Lantos
Jul 21, 20221 min read
Voting for Trump Worse Than Smoking
Light smokers are 2-3 times more likely to get lung cancer, stomach cancer, and coronary artery disease than are people who don’t smoke....
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John Lantos
Jul 18, 20222 min read
Conscience claims after Roe v. Wade
Fifteen years ago, we reported that 16% of doctors in the United States would neither discuss abortion with patients nor refer their...
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John Lantos
Jul 14, 20223 min read
Brain death and xenotransplantation research
OK, so researchers have genetically modified pigs and then transplanted their hearts into brain dead human bodies. Yesterday’s dystopian...
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John Lantos
Jul 13, 20222 min read
Two key lessons from Uvalde
From the botched police response to the Uvalde school shooting, we should learn two key lessons about proposals to make schools safer. ...
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John Lantos
Jul 9, 20224 min read
The reality of compulsory pregnancy
Annie Ernaux describes her abortion like this, “I could see the tiles between my thighs. I pushed with all my strength. It burst forth...
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John Lantos
Jul 4, 20223 min read
Making football safe for prayer
There are some serious theological questions here. What sort of God would desire prayers offered on the fifty yard line immediately...
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John Lantos
Jun 29, 20222 min read
Miscarriages (of justice)
Bioethics was born as a result of debates about contraception and in vitro fertilization. The challenge was to explain why reproductive...
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